Puppet-Prince AU full
Puppet Prince AU Masterpost
I have decided to make a post that compiled all ideas for the Puppet-Prince AU that is far neater and more useful than the current reblog-chain-mess that as of time of writing currently serves its place.
It is a Snowgrave AU where Ralsei takes Noelle’s place and is manipulated via the use of the very same “garbage noise” phone calls that once drove Spamton to madness, and the fluffy prince seeks reassurance from the human he had grown so attached to, only to be taking advantage of and made to do terrible things in a hindered state of mind
Thanks to @spamton-kinnie, @notquitestellar, @megawesomer, @vivitheheiwa,@lordbaphomet, and anyone I forgot to mention for helping me brainstorm ideas and contributing to the AU in general. I couldn’t have gotten this far without you.
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I first had the idea for this AU when I saw this post
(@gamethesoldier )
Afterwards, me and @spamton-kinnie brainstormed a few ideas for a Snowgrave AU revoking around Ralsei in a reblog-chain. I decided to make it its own post. The post gained traction, some more brainstorming was done because I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and now here we are
The run requires making a modified, more powerful version of the Ragger with the mallet dude in ch1. Then, in chapter 2, (somewhat similar to the salt route) the player begins the run by going to a bunch of mysterious, dark areas early on in the cyber field, having the modified Ragger equipped for Ralsei, and using the cell phone.
*you tried to make a call with the cell phone
*you hear something strange on the other end. You can’t quite make it out
Ralsei:
* what’s that? ...hearing something weird?
*... maybe I could be of assistance? I studied a whole bunch of weird darkner languages during my time in the castle!
*(plus... y’know... big ears n’ all... heheh!)
*... huh? W-what? What do you mean...?
*................................
*it... wasn’t anything you need to worry about, Kris.
*(seemed more like it was for me, to be honest)
* o-oh, uhh.... it’s nothing to worry about, Kris.
I-I’m fine, I promise!
Later on...
*You made another phone call. You hear something strange that you can’t quite make out
Ralsei:
*o-oh, Kris? Another phone call? ......Having those problems again? Do you... need me to..... uh....
*U-Um... s-sure!
*..............
*...who are you?.... n-no! Wh-wha.... oh.......
*...................................... o h............
*maybe... maybe we shouldn’t call that number anymore, alright Kris? P-... p-please?
With each phone call, Ralsei grows more and more unnerved and paranoid.
In order to maintain the route, the player must also make Kris choose options that are positive for Ralsei in all character interactions, otherwise he will grow untrustworthy of Kris, suspecting that the player controlling them has malicious intent.
If you encounter all phone calls whilst shower Ralsei in as much affection as possible, the route will be activated, with the first difference occurring when Susie and Ralsei SHOULD split up from Kris.
The scene proceeds like this (pun semi-intended)
Ralsei, having been made very uneasy and paranoid due to the phone calls and been made more comfortable around Kris, really really really wants to go with them.
Because of this, when Susie tries to drag him along with her, he resists Susie with growing stubbornness (and he does it rather violently, too), ending with him releasing a burst of light
(I always liked to imagine Ralsei could passively control light from how he seemed to completely change color when taking off his hat.)
Susie didn’t take Ralsei’s protesting seriously until he started showing serious signs of distress (as well as him getting a bit violent, of course, which was happening simultaneously), at which point she was quick to let him go. Or, at least would’ve been if Ralsei hadn’t already released the burst of light before she had the chance.
(seriously she would have let Ralsei go had it went on a split second longer and he didn’t beat her to it I cannot stress this enough)
Susie is taken aback by this, and at least somewhat hurt by it, both physically and emotionally, feeling like quite a bit like trash because it feels like she hurt her friend, as well as feeling rather isolated again all of a sudden.
“Woah, dude... uh... I’m... sorry. If... if you want to go with Kris that much then... well... you can.”
*she tries hide it a bit*
“...Uh- I’ll meet you later! Have fun with Kris ya dork!”
*it kinda works, but also kinda doesn’t
(Sorry if my writing isn’t all that good, I’m not all that good at writing dialogue)
Ralsei immediately senses that Susie is upset and wants to apologize, but she leaves before he can finish his sentence.
[insert psychological manipulation from the player #1 here]
Feeling horrible about hurting Susie’s feelings, Ralsei says
*oh, Susie! She must have been so hurt! Good lord... I feel terrible!
>*”She was going to get in the way of us” *“it’s okay. She was forcing you to go along with her when you didn’t want to, and you panicked.”
*but-... but that’s so-! ......
*...I mean... I guess if you say so, ...I guess? She was sorta... in-cooperative last time, wasn’t she?
*.....
*...b-but I really hurt her, Kris! Not only did I hurt her emotionally, but I hurt her physically, too!
*I just can’t help feeling really bad about it, and I feel like I should feel bad about it, too.
>*”the spell protected you, use it more” *”you probably shouldn’t have been so violent about it, but it’s okay. You panicked, and we can always make amends later”
*...I guess it could be pretty useful, huh Kris?
*...but that still doesn’t really-.......
*........nevermind
*(why was kris acting so weird right then? Is something wrong?)
*(he was so nice to me just minutes earlier, though)
*(maybe it’s nothing to worry about)
*(....for now, at least)
*Ralsei has learned “Light-Burst”
Light-Burst itself is not a seriously damaging spell, but if a significant amount of fights are finished with violence, Ralsei will learn “Focus-Shot”, where the light is concentrated onto a single fingertip (in a finger-gun formation, because the fluffy boi must have his guns), making a much more potent and dangerous version of Light-burst.
Being hit with Finger-Gun-Shot is very similar to being shot with an actual gun, and enemies defeated with it will collapse and pass out from their injuries, incapacitated.
They’ll be fine, though.... right?
(Spoilers: they definitely won’t)
Entering Cyber-city, we encounter Noelle, and she joins our team, this time with Ralsei in tow.
It is possible to do both a Snowgrave run and a Puppet-Prince run at the same time (murder-trio AU), but if you abort the puppet-prince run before encountering Noelle, Ralsei will prevent you from doing a Snowgrave route at all costs. You just get wholesome Ralsei + Noelle interactions instead.
Ralsei follows you/kris into the alleyway where Spamton’s fight occurs, and he accompanies Kris/you through the fight, quietly drawing connections between Spamton and the phone calls in his mind. Afterwards, he shows interest in Spamton and encourages Kris to pursue the secret boss side-quest.
Upon entering Spamton’s shop, he announces that he just got two new items shipped in from a mysterious supplier just for Kris and Ralsei;
1. “Mike’s Earpiece”- “allows for the best of communication, and a constant stream of the most important updates on [Hyperlink Blocked] directly into your brain!”
(Increases Magic Efficiency, Increases Attack)
Ralsei’s dialogue upon equipping:
“Oh! So we can stay in touch better, right Kris? Thanks!
…oh I do not like the voices…
…uh- i-it’s fine, Kris! After all, why wouldn’t I trust you?”
2.”Thorned Gauntlet”-“a gauntlet covered in glowing thorns. You feel woozy wearing it”
(Increases Attack, decreases defense)
I added the Thorned Gauntlet because I saw the theory that the reason that Kris didn’t resist the Snowgrave route was because he wanted to act super out-of-character in front of Noelle so that she would realize what was happening, and they didn’t realize what the player’s true intentions were until it was too late. I feel like Kris wouldn’t have as much of a reason to go along with the player’s actions, so I wanted something to mess with their mind a bit too in order to hinder their attempts to resist. Because of this, if you don’t have the Thorned Gauntlet equipped, Puppet-Prince dialogue options won’t appear, it will just act as if you chose the aborting options by default.
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If you have the Thorned Gauntlet equipped for Kris, Mike’s Earpiece equipped for Ralsei, and get in a fight on the way back from Spamton’s shop, the following scene will activate
Up to this point, After finishing each battle with focus-shot (yes, I’m changing its name to focus-shot), Ralsei would go up to the collapsed enemy and give them a minor healing spell to make sure they’re okay. Not enough to get them back on their feet, mind you, but enough to give Ralsei some peace of mind.
He begins questioning the usage of Focus-Shot whatsoever, and if Kris isn’t downed in the fight, Ralsei will un-learn Focus-shot, aborting the route.
If Kris is downed in the battle and Ralsei has Mike’s Earpiece equipped, he will go berserk, with attack power drastically increasing
The fight will end with a scene where Ralsei goes up to the enemy and repeatedly beats them with the Ragger after they’ve already collapsed, blacking out, and regaining lucidity to see the enemy has vanished, faint glimmering smears of blood and dust where they once stood.
R: “h-huh? Wh-what happened? Where did they..? Did I...? N-no, I couldn’t have...”
Ralsei feels horrible about his outburst (that may or may not have ended with a casualty). He tries to justify it to himself
“This isn’t... this isn’t like me. ....Th-they tried to hurt kris... t-the voices... I-... I wasn’t myself... oh god...”
He turns to Kris for reassurance, or at least some clarity”
“Kris... was... was I.....?” He trails off
>*”you were protecting me” *”your mind was clouded, you couldn’t think rationally”
“But it feels like I went too far! And- and I was hearing all these voices, telling me to do things, bad things, like they were controlling me.... and... and...”
...
“I’m just... so... terrified, Kris. Those phone calls, the things I heard, the things I am hearing. It feels like I haven’t been able to think right in ages. It’s like I’m losing my mind.”
>*” I will protect you. I already have been”. *”I promise it will be okay”
“Y-you’re right, thank you. I’ve felt safer around you than anyone else. It’s just....
What are we going to do?”
>*”You will protect me like I have been protecting you” *continue our journey and try to avoid any more strange incidents
“...” it seemed, to him, like words of comfort, but something felt off. Something about how it was worded just set him off slightly
>*Proceed. *...
“...okay, Kris.”
“Let’s go...”
Ralsei will no longer heal enemies incapacitated with Focus-Shot at the end of battles.
Susie doesn’t meet up with the rest of the party when she usually does. Instead, it seems she’s gotten herself into some sort of trouble. If you are playing an aborted Puppet-Prince route, Kris & co end up going on a side-quest to help her, but if the route remains unbroken, you are unable to do this
As the route continues, Noelle grows more and more concerned for Ralsei’s wellbeing, and more and more suspicious of Kris.
In the Berdly fight, Ralsei seriously wounds Berdly, forcing him to flee lest he be killed. and this seems to be a sort of turning point for Noelle.
The aftermath of the Spamton Neo fight, when Ralsei starts to fully begin losing his grip on reality, solidifies it.
After the Spamton Neo fight, Noelle decides to confront Kris and Ralsei about her concerns. This conversation escalates into a full-blown battle with Noelle. This battle has 2 phases: 1 the main battle, and 2. The finale.
The main battle is what it says on the tin. Noelle can be spared through ACTing (aborting the route), or the battle can be allowed to reach the finale through FIGHTing and using Focus-shot.
During the finale, Noelle collapses, wounded, but she still refuses to give up, building a shield of ice completely around her and firing consistent, low-damage attacks in a sequence similar to that of the end of the Snowgrave Neo fight. This is the player’s last chance to spare Noelle and abort the run. Alternatively, you could try and make Ralsei cast “Floodlight”.
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)1
“Wha.... what.... what do you mean... ‘floodlight’?”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)2
“I... I don’t know... what that spell is....”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)3
“I.. I sw- I swear! I don’t know what you’re-..............”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)4
“............. oh no”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)5
“Please, I... I don’t want to!”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)6
“G-get out of my head!”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)7
“.........Why does everything feel so... strange?”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)8
“...I can’t.... seem to... think”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)9
“...what’s... happening...?”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)10
“...p- please! ........... please....”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)11
“.......................................”
Ralsei>MAGIC> Floodlight (fatal)12
Ralsei cast Floodlight
Ralsei floats up into the air like a corpse tied to balloons, his eyes glowing. Extremely bright beams of light and particles of magic start rapidly emanating from his body and flood the room, twisting in elegant patterns. Noelle’s ice-shield backfires as the frozen crystals concentrate the light and magic inwards, acting like an oven and burning her alive and killing her after a few brief-yet-agonizingly-long moments.
“Wha... what happened...? It was so bright... I couldn’t see-...”
Ralsei spots the large glowing ball of swirling light in front of him, containing the silhouette of Noelle’s body, broken into pieces. He realizes what has happened.
He drops to his knees in front of the orb, muttering “imsosorryimsosorryimsosorry” and “nononononononono” under his breath. He is unresponsive to attempts at interacting with him. Light is bending near him in strange ways, giving him an unearthly appearance.
Just as you are about to leave the room, a voice is heard
“Hey.. it’s him!”
A group of swatchlings and other darkners have found Ralsei and have come to imprison him for the chaos reeked upon cyber city
“...Wh-what? ...What are you doing?!”
He is visibly distressed, although not entirely lucid
“G-... g-get your hands off me...”
His body begins to glow
“....GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF OF ME!”
White flash, cut to black. When the screen is revealed, the room is stained periodically with blood and dust, surrounding Ralsei are the remains of those trying to arrest him. They are, beyond any reasonable doubt, dead.
“What... what happened?! Did I...”
Hazy Images flash through Ralsei’s head. Images of him breaking someone’s neck with his scarf, images of him blowing somebody’s brains out with a focused shot of light fired from a finger tip, etc.
“...No, no, that con’t be right-“
Backup arrives
“Oh... oh god... LEAVE ME ALONE!”
Black out again, coming to in a different room, surrounded by more carnage. Kris is no where to be seen. For whatever reason, the SOUL is now following Ralsei.
After the first few killings of the murder spree, it’s like a damn has burst in his head and he can’t seem to stop himself.
More Swatchlings and other darkners come and try to stop Ralsei, starting a fight. No matter how you choose to resolve the fight, either with mercy or violence, the outcome is the same: blacking out and coming to in a different room surrounded by more blood, more dust, more remains, more carnage, with more violent imagery flashing through Ralsei’s head.
Before each time Ralsei blacks out, Kris can be seen in the background desperately trying to catch up to Ralsei
All the while, Ralsei is panicking and loosing control of himself.
“GET AWAY FROM ME! PLEASE!” In both fear for himself and those around him.
You encounter Swatch and fight them. It’s a difficult boss fight of course. A bit of swatchling lore here and there. But eventually they fall like the others
Afterwards, the sequence crescendos, with bloodied rooms blinking by at fractions of a second.
Overwhelmed and traumatized, Ralsei collapses to the ground, clutches his head, and screams.
Our perspective cuts back to Kris. Ralsei is no where to be seen.
When we finally encounter Ralsei again, it is clear he has finally been fully broken
His clothes are bloodstained, and when we first see him, he is stoic and entranced
When he notices Kris, Ralsei abruptly switches to a “happier” appearance.
He seems to be maintaining (or at least trying to maintain) a veneer of his usual lighthearted, optimistic self, but it has been twisted and warped beyond recognition, reminiscent of Spamton or Jevil
Later on, Ralsei kills the Queen in her boss fight
And so that is, as of now, the entire Puppet-Prince route AU! I hope it was good! You can feel free to add on and/or make fan-art of if you want, I’d be absolutely ecstatic! I’m always open to feedback!
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Puppet Prince AU Masterpost
I have decided to make a post that compiled all ideas for the Puppet-Prince AU that is far neater and more useful than the current reblog-chain-mess that as of time of writing currently serves its place.
It is a Snowgrave AU where Ralsei takes Noelle’s place and is manipulated via the use of the very same “garbage noise” phone calls that once drove Spamton to madness, and the fluffy prince seeks reassurance from the human he had grown so attached to, only to be taking advantage of and made to do terrible things in a hindered state of mind
Thanks to @spamton-kinnie, @notquitestellar, @megawesomer, @vivitheheiwa,@lordbaphomet, and anyone I forgot to mention for helping me brainstorm ideas and contributing to the AU in general. I couldn’t have gotten this far without you.
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55 notes • Posted 2021-11-03 23:41:14 GMT
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60 notes • Posted 2021-10-18 21:56:21 GMT
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RIP Brian Stells
He would have survived if only he had the drip
88 notes • Posted 2021-10-22 21:05:45 GMT
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Been thinking of something cool that could happen in chapter 3. So basically Ralsei wants to do the whole send-the-player-soul-away-so-we-can-talk-without-interference thing but with Susie present so she can get caught up on the whole possession business, too. Ralsei, not able to send the player-soul over to see Susie for obvious reasons, decides to send it over to Noelle.
Here’s where things get interesting: unlike Susie, Noelle can hear our commands and we actually get to play as Noelle.
this section differs depending on wether you did a normal route or a Snowgrave route. If you did a normal route, Noelle is relatively calm about it and is able to resist the player’s commands when she wants to, because she’s just sorta along for the ride. If you did a Snowgrave route, Noelle is unable to resist the player’s commands and she is absolutely panicking because she is able to connect the dots from the “terrifying voice“ to the occult stuff Kris and Catty were doing and such.
meanwhile, back in the dark world, Ralsei and Susie are panicking because the soul hasn’t come back yet and Kris is starting to get real sick due the lack of a soul. the gang connects the dots and realizes that they need to find Noelle and fast. In the Snowgrave run, this is a lot more horrifying because Kris just got done spilling the beans about being forced to make Noelle kill Berdly, and there’s this horrified silence as they all connect the dots in their heads and realize what’s happening, that they just sent the player right where they need to be to cause as much damage as possible, that they just damned Noelle to the same fate as Kris.
and so the race is on.
104 notes • Posted 2021-11-09 23:36:15 GMT
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Here is the Puppet-Prince AU as it’s own post! please Feel free to add on!
Edit: don’t forget about @spamton-kinnie, who helped start all this!
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